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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.


Aldous Huxley

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ALDOUS HUXLEY Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned...
BETTY DODSON Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
AMIT KALANTRI Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for ...
HERMANN HESSE It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrif...
AYN RAND My whole life has been one theme of self-sacrifice for my investors.
MARTIN SHKRELI When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the ‘foremost’ religion. If ...
DADA BHAGWAN Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of s...
MORIHEI UESHIBA ...there is power in self-sacrifice.
VERONICA ROTH The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
SADHU VASWANI The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936...
ELIZABETH BOWEN At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basi...
DAVE REICHERT Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Abraham was asked to sacrifice his only son. God no longer asks for blood sacrifices, for the ultima...
KEN FOLLETT The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all s...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
MAHATMA GANDHI Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
MOHANDAS GANDHI Life demands strong commitment for positive image & self belief to have meaningful life. Commitment ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, y 1984, de George Orwell. Esa
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the b...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR for the self-sacrifice and high professionalism show during the rescue of the Russian seamen.
VLADIMIR PUTIN All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help othe...
A.J. RUSSELL Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their s...
RON WYDEN Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
MARGARET DELAND The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy...
PAUL WASHER Give unto me, made lowly wise,/ The spirit of self-sacrifice.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and biza...
MEI FONG No one became wise without almost drowning in the waters of foolishness and then grabbing the rope o...
TURYASINGURA NELSON DERRICK Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under His protection
SUNDAY ADELAJA When God interrupts our lives with His dream, it can be hard for us to want to step forward to embra...
TIFFANY SMILING Fixate your love on Him, be obedient to God's word, and don't seek the glory of this world. ...
MONICA JOHNSON Self-sacrifice is never entirely unselfish, for the giver never fails to receive.
DOLORES E. MCGUIRE The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting g...
JEFF MILLER Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow
RALPH WALDO EMERSON For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS Some offer their wealth, their austerity, and their practice of yoga as sacrifice, while the ascetic...
BHAGAVAD GITA Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.
PROVERB Sacrifice is the only true measure of generosity.
JASON HURST No one ever does anything our of charity," Anna went on. "Every choice we make benefits ourselves di...
SARA DONATI I am trying to ask them to ask the deeper questions in life. The one major theme is sacrifice. They ...
G. KWAME SCRUGGS The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ...
JOHN PIPER I was raised to believe that God speaks in the language of sacrifice," he told me, "You are expected...
NEIL ABRAMSON Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON EPIPHANY If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still of count...
JOHN KEBLE How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.
ERIC HOFFER What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes incl...
ERIC HOFFER Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of y...
DAVID DUCHOVNY The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. ELIOT The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T.S. ELIOT Everybody knows basically what is right and what is wrong. Everybody knows better than to hate other...
CRISS JAMI Her eyes melted and ran like butter. Gehirn ignited with concussive force.
MICHAEL R. FLETCHER The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123 Always respect your sef being. Never sacrifice your self entity for any one. Always remain what you ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If there's a country, and it's dangerous, and we deploy a U.S. military man or woman, if the...
JOHN F. KELLY As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs ...
DEXTER PALMER The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-s...
ERIC HOFFER Dharma (function or properties) of the mind, dharma of the intellect, dharma of the chit, dharma of ...
DADA BHAGWAN We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
LEIGH HUNT The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to ...
AYN RAND When a man’s trust is violated, he will leave even his friend. Hey, you shouldn’t leave him! The...
DADA BHAGWAN If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
C. T. STUDD If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
C T STUDD May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...
DENNIS GABOR Sacrifice is a terribly difficult thing to do, of which you will be asked to do many times along you...
FORREST CURRAN We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels -...
JOHN GREEN I always wanted to be a hero--to sacrifice my life in a big way one time--and yet, God has required ...
SALLY CLARKSON The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Winners choose to make the smartest sacrifice.
KEVIN ABDULRAHMAN There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.
SIMON SINEK Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSON Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW T. WILSON Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice-only the willingness to make it when necessary.
FREDERICK DUNN If there is true ‘Selfishness,’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is o...
DADA BHAGWAN Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly...
VIKTOR FRANKL Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take...
STEPHENIE MEYER Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
AYN RAND There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.
CHARLES DICKENS I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself." -Eddie
RICHELLE MEAD That's not true either!
PAT NIXON I would feel sorry for her if she did.
PAT NIXON Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thin...
ALEXANDER POPE The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the hap...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political c...
PAT NIXON Our nation is grateful for the courageous sacrifice he was forced to make. If this nation has a soul...
FRANK YUNGWIRTH

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ALDOUS HUXLEY The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty -- h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of o...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
ALDOUS HUXLEY If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it cla...
ALDOUS HUXLEY At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motiva...
ALDOUS HUXLEY An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a v...
ALDOUS HUXLEY So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cea...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
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